Summarise famous books in 23 words.

--Kaiser--

md23040 wrote: »

Inglorious Basterds

Spaghetti western style Tarantino bloodbath with Fitz getting a good kicking from some Jewish American Nazi hunters and a couple of unlikely friends.

That ain't no book I ever heard of!

Jesus Wept

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Busy At Maths 5

The clown juggling numbers on the cover is in no way related to the boring education of 'hard sums' that is lurking underneath.

castletownman wrote: »

Where's Wally

Is that him? No. Ah feck it. Wait, wait. There he is? Yeah that's him hiding rather conspicuously behind bushes near some children.

homemadecider wrote: »

Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun SHARK!

Top, top answers!

carmanard

The Bourne Identity

Man loses memory, kidnaps future wife, makes enemy of Carlos The Jackal. Book p1sses all over identically titled movie version starring Matt Damon

Jesus Wept

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick road. Meet a lion, scarecrow, tin man. Kill a witch. Also there's a little dog.

BUBBLE WRAP

Dear Die Hard -

you suck

especially when that guy was on the roof.

- Homer Simpson

ps: do you know Mad Max?

World War Z:
It's all China's fault. Lots of Zombies. Battle of Yonkers would probably have been pretty cool. Never trust anyone from South Africa again.

CardBordWindow

Mr.Tickle by Roger Hargreaves


Strange orange man with abnormally long arms goes around tickling people without their permission, or them realising it's him. Courtroom based sequel possible.

wendell borton

Any Jane Austin novel:
woman wants to get married, has a misunderstanding concerning a man, gets married, the end.

StormWarrior

Enid Blyton's The Naughtiest Girl in the school trilogy:

Very naughty girl sent to boarding school. Causes much trouble, worst student ever. Gets straightened out, becomes best girl, then promoted to monitor.

evillive

Andy Carroll wrote: »

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick road. Meet a lion, scarecrow, tin man. Kill a witch. Also there's a little dog.

OR:

'Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets, then teams up with three strangers to kill again'

LoonyLovegood

Pride and Prejudice

Girl reads too much, turns down cousin. Girl gets proposed to, dumps him, then falls in love when he rescues youngest sister. Weddings

SouthTippBass

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The name of the book that I read was Treasure Island. It's about these pirates, pirates with patches over their eyes, and shiny gold teeth, and green birds on their shoulders. Did I mention this book was written by a guy named Robert Louis Stevenson? And published by the good people at Penguin.
So, in conclusion, on a scale of one to ten--ten being the highest, one being the lowest and five being average--I give this book a nine.

9959

SouthTippBass wrote: »

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The name of the book that I read was Treasure Island. It's about these pirates, pirates with patches over their eyes, and shiny

Hope you don't mind, but I edited your summary to the required twenty three words, I think it works, what do you think?

SouthTippBass

9959 wrote: »

Hope you don't mind, but I edited your summary to the required twenty three words, I think it works, what do you think?

I think you missed the joke.

Agricola

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins;

"Religion in all its forms is a load of old cobblers, I hate it immensely and so should you. Join with me...... Mooohoohooohooohohahhhahahahahahahaaaaaa!"

BUBBLE WRAP

My Autobiography - Just Joe By Joe Duffy

Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla Clontarf!

Omackeral

Day three hundred and seventy five. I am still up in this poxy bleedin' attic. Think I might go shopping. LOL JK, Nazis.



The Diary of Anne Frank.

bnt

The Hunger Games:

In the future, children will be forced to battle each other to the death, but it’s OK as long as there’s no sex.

Witchie

Chicken Licken

Acorn falls on head convincing deluded chicken the skyfalls, he causes panic among other animals and James Bond comes to save the day.

Sparks43

Crypto by Steven levy

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DB21

The jews did it! The jews did it! The jews did it! The jews did it! The jews did it! I'm telling you!

-Mein Kampf

podgemonster

Its Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Lance Armstrong Autobiography

Born in Texas, takes up cycling then LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES....Cancer, recovers, returns to cycling followed by LIES LIES LIES LIES!

Oranage2

DB21 wrote: »

The jews did it! The jews did it! The jews did it! The jews did it! The jews did it! I'm telling you!

-Mein Kampf

Funnily enough its also the tag line for the bible too.

Capt'n Midnight

Romeo & Juliet - - Two teenagers fall in love and then they die.

md23040

Joy of Sex

A fantasy book for deluded males who believed somehow magically their other halve would find undiscovered sexual enlightenment within its pages.

reganreggie

King Lear: if you have 3 kids 2 of them are probaly fu*kers. Bad Weather blindness maddness death. A barrell of laughs all round.

Ares

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Busy At Maths 5

The clown juggling numbers on the cover is in no way related to the boring education of 'hard sums' that is lurking underneath.

This deserves so much more love!

sebastianlieken

Girl volunteers for sister in fight to the death tournament, falls in love with competitor, saves him and wins - president gets all pissy.

mortarhate

2001: A Space Odyssey
Stone helps man evolve, stone reappears four million years later on moon, Computer on spaceship kills crew, last man travels to Jupiter, wtf?

beans

mortarhate wrote: »

2001: A Space Odyssey
Stone helps man evolve, stone reappears four million years later on moon, Computer on spaceship kills crew, last man travels to Jupiter, wtf?

Saturn; you just summarised the film

Gambas

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

Weirdo baby lives. Grows up, goes to freak school, catches snitches, plays music to three headed dog, vanquishes evildoer attached to back of teachers head.

Gulliver

2001: A space Odyssey

We are an experiment. Follow markers into space. AI goes nuts. Monolith is gateway. It’s full of stars. Dave is a god now.

Gulliver

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Greek gods are randy. Demigods everywhere. ADHD is actually battle readiness. Zeus loses artefact, Percy goes on an adventure. Angst ensues. Daddy issues.

mortarhate

beans wrote: »

Saturn; you just summarised the film

Double Doh!!:)

--Kaiser--

mortarhate wrote: »

2001: A Space Odyssey
Stone helps man evolve, stone reappears four million years later on moon, Computer on spaceship kills crew, last man travels to Jupiter, wtf?

This looks like a description of the film rather than the book, because in the book the end is explicitly explained whereas in the film you're left to your own devices

Potential-Monke

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

Boy is a wizard. Learns spells. Learns about his history. Gets in trouble. Gets blamed for everything. Defeats evil guy. All is good.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Boy is a wizard. Learns spells. Learns about his history. Gets in trouble. Gets blamed for everything. Defeats evil guy. All is good.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Boy is a wizard. Learns spells. Learns about his history. Gets in trouble. Gets blamed for everything. Defeats evil guy. All is good.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Boy is a wizard. Learns spells. Learns about his history. Gets in trouble. Gets blamed for everything. Defeats evil guy. All is good.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Boy is a wizard. Learns spells. Learns about his history. Gets in trouble. Gets blamed for everything. Defeats evil guy. All is good.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Boy is a wizard. Learns spells. Learns about his history. Gets in trouble. Gets blamed for everything. Defeats evil guy. All is good.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Boy is a wizard. Learns spells. Learns about his history. Gets in trouble. Gets blamed for everything. Defeats evil guy. All is good.

stmol32

The Godfather:

Organised crime Family and the power they wield.
Bit about big penises and vaginas for some reason .
The film was actually better.

Ruski

A song of ice and fire

Seriously boring plot but somehow it is super awesome and interesting. This series will never finish but I'll still buy all the books.

Capt'n Midnight

Every Clive Cussler book ever.

theCzar wrote: »

Generally, they start well with an interesting bit of historical fiction, then Dirk Pitt arrives and it's all down hill. The first one you read is the best, if you read another you suddenly think:

"hold on, isn't this the same as the last one, except the chinese treasure boat has been replaced with an incan treasure boat, or a confederate treasure boat, and the neo-nazis have been replaced with, um, neo nazis"

Kold

stmol32 wrote: »

The Da Vinci Code :

Jesus had sex.
Pope doesn’t want people to know.
Clues pop up that would embarrass Scooby Doo.
Leonardo DaVinci isn’t even in it.

Yes he is.

Lapin

Having made love to seven different beautiful women on seven continents on seven consecutive nights - he decided Antartica was indeed a cold place.

BrokenArrows

Boy attacked as an infant, boy attacked again and again because he hasnt learned the double tap method and sucks at magic. END.

LiamoSail

That was A1 Sharon, good girl. You're pregnant? Who done that to you? He's not black is he? A Spanish sailor? Burgess, GeorgieFcukingBurgess

RADIUS

Kane and Abel

Tycoon from powerful family secretly invests in immigrant turned hotelier only to become bitter rivals. Meeting once before death, Hotelier buys out Tycoon.

RichT

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Thriller set in Sweden, a journalist and a waif like computer hacker eat sandwiches and try to drink their own weight in coffee.

G.K.

Thucydides' History of the Pelopponesian War:

Athens expands, Corinth desperately wants blood, Sparta wants peace. Fighting ensues, followed by unsuccessful peace, rinse and repeat, Athens eventually smashed.

Kxiii

A Brief History of Time

It is a short book about space, time and universe. That many have bought, few have fully read and even fewer have understood.

Gambas

Huge letter with snakes followed by loads of small letters and doodles around the outside. Repeat.

NaNaNa1

Les miserables - Victor Hugo.

Man steals bread, breaks parole,adopts orphan girl and becomes mayor. Angry students are angry. Bloodbath insues. Loads dead. Tears. Wedding. More tears.

9959

The Tibetan Book Of The Dead:The Great Book Of Natural Liberation Through Understanding In The Inbetween

Do not be fooled by the somewhat dry and unwieldy title of this philosophical masterpiece, it's even more boring than the title suggests.